Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for September. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for August. The CoreLogic HPI is a three month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA).

Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased year over year by 6.3 percent in
September 2016 compared with September 2015 and increased month over month by 1.1
percent in September 2016 compared with August 2016, according to the CoreLogic HPI.
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“Home-equity wealth has doubled during the last five years to $13 trillion, largely because of the
recovery in home prices,” said Dr. Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic. “Nationwide
during the past year, the average gain in housing wealth was about $11,000 per homeowner,
but with wide geographic variation.”emphasis added

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This graph shows the national CoreLogic HPI data since 1976. January 2000 = 100.

The index was up 1.1% in September (NSA), and is up 6.3% over the last year.

This index is not seasonally adjusted, and this was another solid month-to-month increase.

The index is still 5.2% below the bubble peak in nominal terms (not inflation adjusted).

The second graph shows the YoY change in nominal terms (not adjusted for inflation).

The YoY increase had been moving sideways over the last two years.

The year-over-year comparison has been positive for fifty six consecutive months since turning positive year-over-year in February 2012.